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Formative fictions : nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman /

The "Bildungsroman", or "novel of formation, " has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boes, Tobias, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Cornell University Library, 2012.
Colección:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism
  • Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history
  • Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830
  • Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire
  • Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity
  • Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.